Deceit is purposeful falsehood. If you want to keep your true love true to you, avoid any acts of deceit.
An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.
Noun
the act of deceiving
Noun
the quality of being fraudulent
Noun
a misleading falsehood
n.
An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error;
any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or
causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap;
deception; a wily device; fraud.
n.
Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or
underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby
effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.
Deceit
Making the ephah small and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit.
Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile.
Yet still we hug the dear deceit.2.
An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.
Usage Examples
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
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Other Usage ExamplesDeceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.
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